Stuff I find while rooting about.

Friday, October 31, 2003

SpaceWeather.com -- News and information about meteor showers, solar flares, auroras, and near-Earth asteroids just the site we need with the current solar activity.

Monday, October 27, 2003

Astrometrica lets you query online astronomy databases to check what you are looking at. This is just like the big boys?

Tuesday, October 21, 2003

A neat 3D photography kit from MISSION3-D Online. Hmmmm.........

Tuesday, October 14, 2003

Today we love to fill the back of our cars with a fat sub woofer and some in front with an LCD display. To read about what was in car entertainment in the past go to ook - highway hi-fi - miller. Unbelievable.

Monday, October 13, 2003

If your clumsy or got to work in the rough, the PDA for you is the Tripod Data Systems' Recon.

Sunday, October 12, 2003

Open Source on the road? ALCAS: A Linux Car Audio System is an MP3 player for the car.

Saturday, October 11, 2003

Wow Indian Express newspaper has an RSS 2.0 feed at Express Syndications. This makes me feel good.

Hmmm this was fairly accurate.

ISTP - "Artisan". Impulsive action. Life should be of impulse rather than of purpose. Action is an end to itself. Fearless, craves excitement, master of tools. 5% of the total population.
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Except maybe the fearless bit.

PC dead for almost a week. When I take it into office, to fix it up, it works just fine. Aaarghhhh.

Saturday, October 04, 2003

They are throwing rocks at us. New Scientist reports that an asteroid came real close to us. Then we have an unusual event over South Wales. And before that there was meteor in India.

All this time, I realise, I was not really looking at all the information a Google search returend.Read How to Interpret your Search Results.

How things change. In shcool I remember there were two home computers dominating the scene. Spectrum & Commodore. Frodo is an offering from Open Source software for Epoc / Symbian OS. It lets you emulate a Commodore 64 on your Nokia 60 series phone. (i.e. Nokia 3650/Nokia 9210 etc)

Friday, October 03, 2003

Sometimes you just have to give an email address, but you dont want to be spammed. If its just a one time thing, and you dont want to share your real email, then try out Mailinator. Its great. Instant email that you can feed to a potential spammer.